ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF RACISM AND REVOLT AGAINST CAPITAL
Primitive accumulation of capital. Colonization. Racism. Dehumanization. Revolt.
The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the ontological foundation of racism, that is, its origin, nature and social function. We start from the Marxian method through the central category of totality, based on a social-historical ontology. Thus, the investigative path begins with the immanent analysis of chapters 24 and 25 of Capital, Book I, which deal, respectively, with the primitive accumulation of capital (16th to 18th century) and colonization, a period in which it places the origin of racism in time. The anatomy of capital reveals that racism has a bourgeois nature, as it was engendered during the genesis of capital accumulation, therefore, racism and capital are indivisible. The social function of racism is found in the process of dehumanization of racialized peoples, an observation made from Almeida (2018), Fanon (2008) and Césaire (2006), along with the Marxian letter. Racism unfolds in the revolt of the racialized. We scrutinize the revolt and resistance of racialized peoples against capital through aesthetic analysis, under the scrutiny of political economy critique, capoeira music, as well as the novel written by Condé (2020). We found that racism is a mechanism created by the bourgeoisie to intensify the process of exploitation, expropriation and decimation through the dehumanization of racialized people. This was created by the capital system and can only end with the destruction of this system and the construction of a sociability based on human emancipation.